Friday, February 26, 2010
Remember when you were younger and you went into that second-hand bookshop near the university and bought that book by Carlos Castaneda called Journey to Ixtlan? Yeah, the hardback one without a cover. Just gray and really old looking, even then. In it, Castaneda narrates his anthropological studies under a Mexican shaman. The books are [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Well well well, I was hoping never to have to do much more than recycle second-hand stories from the web in an attempt to appear knowledgeable and well-traveled in the art world. And then I accidentally end up in London and go to two galleries! I know, amazing eh? Jerry Saltz had better watch his [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Worcester City Art Gallery are co-hosting the latest Worcester Open Exhibition. It has been said in some quarters that any competition that you have to pay for isn’t necessarily one that you should enter. There are, however, many different reasons for organisations charging for entry. If you think it’s not such a bad idea then [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Hey, who says there isn’t interesting stuff going on outside of London? Nobody, that’s who (but I wish people would start that argument up again, just because it unnerves liberal minded Londoners) And as though to prove the point The New Art Gallery Walsall is celebrating ten years of being open this February. To go [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
The March issue of Art Review will be landing in your local newsagent soon. Just there, between the design magazines and the latest issue of What Dog Monthly featuring a hundred things to do with a poodle when it starts to lose it’s fur. Great. Well, if you can pull your nose out of the [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
I so wish that I’d managed to keep my old database and entries to previous blogs. Oh hang on, before ramble on, I’d just like to say that I really hate it when people talk about blogging and say that they’ve just written a blog, when they mean a blog post. It’s like being a [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
This is a new blog of mine, since I destroyed my previous one with a horrible accident involving databases and Drupal and other bad stuff that shouldn’t have happened. That’s not a very good advert for my skills with CMSs and databases I know, but it was me experimenting so that I don’t have to [...]